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Anthony Pompliano

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  1. “Just not necessarily to you personally, just to the uniform, to what you stand for, to all this stuff. When you see it, you see it, right? And I always think of if you've ever watched the movie 12 strong. And in it, they've got this Afghanistan warlord and he's talking to a bunch of soldiers. And he says, you know, you don't have killer eyes. You do, you do. And he's just like, he can just tell, right? He's seen so many soldiers. And so I think that that was a memory on a number of occasions where I just saw young kids and I just said they hate us, right? And it's not you personally, it's what you stand for. But the really big event was when you first get to these combat zones, a lot of times what will happen is you basically, your unit teams up with a unit that's leaving and there's a handoff and it happens over a couple of weeks. And so you can imagine almost 1% of our team goes out with 99% of their team. Then 595, 10, 90, all the way till it's 50-50. And then eventually it rotates.”

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  2. “I think there were two main takeaways that I took, right? So, one was not a specific moment, but on multiple occasions, I remember we were driving down the road, and I would look and there would be a 10, 12, 14-year-old kid. And if you've never seen somebody who literally has hate and disdain in their eyes.”

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  3. “In a male dominated, testosterone driven kind of combative sport where it's us first them and there's training and injuries and just kind of all of the things that go into playing a combat sport like football. To now they give you guns, but you still have a uniform on, still male dominated. It's just a little bit more serious in terms of the injuries and potential death and things like that. But also on the exit from that deployment, most guys I was there with, they're going back to being prison guards, police officers, working at the lumber yard, just kind of every day Americans. And so I had the fortunate ability to go back into kind of that combative environment, go back to play football. And so it was almost this like de-escalation on the way out where they take your guns away. We still got a uniform, still male dominated, still combative, and then eventually you're just a normal citizen. And so I think that in some weird way.”

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  4. “Training, get all the kind of education and qualification. That's going to go to college and then after college, maybe there's a chance that you will go and serve or do whatever. For me, I ended up getting deployed when I was a junior in college. I got pulled out of school. And so at 20 years old, it's not exactly what you thought you were signing up for, right? Especially to kind of leave school to go do it. And then on top of that, I probably had an advantage over most people, both on the entry to combat and the exit to kind of a combat situation, which was.”

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  5. “I think there's a couple of key pieces, right? So, one, like one of the actual most impactful data points, if you were, or kind of stories for me, was the Pat Tillman story. So I play football in high school. I know I was going to go play in college and seeing this NFL player who basically just one day said, hey, I'm going to go and do this instead and walk away. I don't know necessarily if it was a, I want to pursue the same story, right? And obviously he ended up dying. And so not exactly the end result that you want. But I think it was almost like he made it okay if you were on a certain trajectory in life to go take this detour and to go do it. But the second thing is I was 17, pretty stupid when you're 17. You're pretty naive when you're 17, right? And so I almost kind of backed into the deployment because I signed up as a reserve member. And so basically the plan was to sign up for the reserves. I was going to go to basic.”

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  6. “Just was an awareness thing, right? How many people kind of drew a line from, was it 92 or 93 with the World Trade Center bombing to deep levels of extremism and hatred of kind of the American industrial complex? Probably not that many. 2001, a lot of people. And so I think that was, you know, again, as a young kid, you don't understand a lot of this stuff. You basically just, hey, somebody came here and tried to kill Americans. And so, you know, we should go fight back was kind of the response I think that I had.”

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  7. “Think America was very, very good at exporting the violence elsewhere for a long time. And there was this element of complacency, but also this element of really just American superiority. That doesn't happen here, right? And I think that that woke people up not only to kind of the idea that other places around the world may not like the American ideals, may not like democracy and capitalism and that, but also maybe we aren't as big, tough, and secure as we thought we were, right? And so obviously I think you see the kind of the overrotation with a lot of the kind of security theater that came after that of almost psychologically let's make our citizens feel like they're safe, even if the things that we're doing don't necessarily kind of change that apparatus. But on top of that, I think that it really woke people up to extremism around the world. And I don't know if necessarily there was a change in the extremism as much as it.”

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  8. “Right? Look, somebody from another country came here and tried to kill Americans and was successful in doing that. And to some extent, he just said, and I'm willing to bet, you know, we're going to go back after him.”

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  9. “So I was in eighth grade, if I remember correctly. And I remember being in school when it happened. And I walked into a classroom and the entire class, somebody else's class, they were all talking to the teacher about something. The second that me and a couple other kids walked in, everyone got real quiet and the teacher was like, hey, go back to your home room. And so it was just kind of a weird, like, what's going on? And then next thing I know, they called all of the students into the cafeteria. And this is back before, you know, every classroom really had a television in it and, you know, cable and all that kind of stuff. And so when we were there, they basically just said, listen, there's been this event that's occurred, all of your parents are going to come pick you guys up and they'll explain it to you. And so to, you know, a kid in eighth grade, you're basically like, what happened? And so I got home. And I remember talking to my dad about it. And my dad basically gave me, you know, the core American kind of talking point.”

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  10. “Sure, I joined when I was 17 years old. I needed my parents to basically sign in order to join. And I'd graduated a semester early from high school and thought I was going to go play football in college and kind of enroll in the spring semester. And when that didn't happen, I basically was working at a Chick-fil-A and Quiznose Had in my mind look, this is probably not the path in life that I want. And so I knew I was going to go to college. I knew I was going to go play football in the fall, but I had this window of time. And so I walked into a recruiting office and just basically was like, I'm assuming you guys need some help. And, you know, they gave me the whole pitch and give you a signing bonus. You can go jump out of planes and go do all this crazy stuff. I just said, okay, let's do it.”

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